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ANU award-winners this fortnight

Whose successes are we celebrating this fortnight?

14 February 2017

Dr Koji Tanaka and Dr Nicholas Southwood from the ANU College of Arts and Social Sciences have received Future Fellowships from the Australian Research Council. Dr Southwood's $733,000 international project will examine feasibility in politics with partners including the World Bank, while Dr Tanaka's $655,000 grant will assess Buddhist philosophical ideas of logic and rationality.

Atem Atem, a doctorate candidate in the ANU Centre for European Studies, has won a grant to address the United Nations in Geneva later this year about his experiences as a former refugee and those of other refugees in Australia.

Dr Sarang Kim has received the Hazel Hawke Research Grant in Dementia Care from the Alzheimer's Australia Dementia Research Foundation for her project Dementia Stigma Reduction (DESeRvE): A randomised controlled trial to reduce dementia related stigma in the general public.

PhD student, Mitchell McMaster, has won the 2017 Phyllis Montgomerie Commonwealth Award from the Royal Commonwealth Society. The award is for his work on a randomised controlled trial to determine the effectiveness of a multidomain dementia risk reduction program for people with mild cognitive impairment (MCI).